The people from the healing school were to serve as the ministry team for the healing crusade. However, they ended up with more people in the school than they expected. So they had us each sign up for one day on the ministry team. Elvi and I had signed up for Friday night. (However, since Elvi came such a long way to attend the school, they also let her minister on Sunday night -- and I got to minister with her on Sunday as well.)
The team members met at 6:15 in the prayer room and spent 45 minutes interceding for the meetings, as well as getting our ministry team badges and some basic instructions. Then we went to our seats for the meeting. I don't remember all of the details of the meeting. But Todd started the meeting by having people come up and give testimonies about the healing school and then a different group gave testimonies about healings they'd received during the week at the healing school. Todd gave some words of knowledge and people came up for prayer and they were healed.
Then, later on, he invited those of us who needed a touch from God in our bodies to stand up and he would pray over us as a group. I did not stand up, since I had determined that my "problems" were related to that spirit of python thing, and I planned to get ministry on that from a few friends from my church. Elvi was standing up next to me, I think for a stomach problem. I was seated next to her, on the aisle. As Todd prayed, the power of God hit me so hard that I absolutely had no control of my body. It did not hurt at all, but I could feel immense power. My head and body were shaking so much that the hair combs I was wearing went flying off my head and landed in the aisle several feet away from me. It felt different than when the power of God came on me for impartation the previous night. I did not know what God was doing, but I knew it was God. The surge of power lasted maybe three or four minutes. When it was over, I stopped shaking but was unable to move, feeling a bit dazed and very mildly drunk in the spirit. His sweetness remained around me after the power manifestation stopped.
About then, Todd asked those who had been healed to come to the front and give a testimony of what God did for them. I knew God had done something, but I was not sure what it was. So I remained in my seat. As others shared their testimony, I kept asking God, "what did you do Lord?" Then I noticed a prayer card in the pew in front of me -- and I could read the small print on it. So I grabbed one of the bible pews that has small print and I COULD READ IT TOO! I was amazed.
I had this condition which many people get in their 40s where they need reading glasses to read. There is a medical term for it, but it means "old eyes." Apparently our lenses keep growing and get thicker and less flexible as we get older. So they have more trouble focusing on close things and we need reading glasses. I have been stubborn and refused to start wearing glasses because I was afraid that would weaken my eyes even more and expedite the process. So I got a large print bible.
But now I could read the pew bible. It did not matter how close or far away I held the bible, I could read the small print. (Usually I have to adjust things I try to read to just the right distance to read it and there would have been NO WAY to have read that small print period!) Then I thought to myself, "the light is very bright here. I wonder if I could read it if the light were dimmer." I have (maybe I should say used to have) real problems reading anything in dimmer light. So I took the bible and walked to a part of the back where there was not much light. Guess what! I could still read it! (When I got home that evening, I tested it out on things that I could not read without reading glasses, like the small print on the back of the Sudafed box, etc. I could read it, even in the evening with the dimmer light!)
After I realized what God had done for me, I very much wanted to give a testimony, but never got the opportunity. God did a lot of healings that night. At the end of the meeting, Todd called up the ministry team to pray for people. Most of the people wanted an infilling instead of a physical healing.
I had expected that the same explosive power that was on me Thursday night would be present during the ministry time, but it was not. I was very disappointed about that and asked God what was going on? Had I lost my impartation? Or had Thursday night been just hype and not a real impartation or what? God answered me in two ways. He showed me a picture of a seed and said that the impartation is like a seed, it was planted with explosive power but now it has to grow and develop in me for a season before it becomes a "giant tree." And the other thing He told me was that I was very tired, and that is part why it was harder for me to move in the anointing. He suggested I get some rest before Sunday night.
That sounded like a good suggestion, so I took Saturday off to just rest and we did not attend the Saturday meetings. I heard that they were excellent, but God's plan for me personally was to get some rest after an exhausting week.
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